There was an old "The Beverly Hillbillies"

[PCIntern]

where Granny discovered the cure for the common cold (another Coronavirus) and everyone gets excited and the media are called and it’s a very big deal.

They await her recipe for this breathlessly and at the reveal she, IIRC, tells of this intricate combination of medicaments, ear of possum, eye of newt...and everyone dutifully writes it down. And then she adds, “...and stay in bed for three days and your cold will vanish!”

She was a regular Louis Pasteur compared with Donald “I’m not a doctor” Trump. A couple things to keep in mind:

That’s right and you know what? Very very few Ph.D’s or M.D.’s know anything other than their relatively narrow field of expertise in such detail that he or she can speak “expertly” to say nothing of lay people. It’d be like you or me being selected to run a steel mill. “I don’t know anything about steel production but...”

Which leads me to the old adage that anything you say after the word “but” is utter B.S..

This whole thing makes me want to “vomit fast as a comet”.

[Hugin]

1. Ha! I was thinking about that very episode the other day!

Great minds and all of that, PCIntern!

[Mike Nelson]

2. I remember...

... "Doctor Granny" - her main treatment was alcohol. I'm sure she had a lot of that in her cold tonic.

[Girard442]

3. Uneducated people think educated people are know-it-alls.

The reality is that educated people are mostly humbled by their realization of the vast scope of their ignorance. Weird isn’t it? If you learn something you also learn that you know very little — but if you’ve learned nothing then you’re confident you do know it all.

[underpants]

5. Very well said and accurate

Also as Fran Lebowitz described Trump "He's a poor person's idea of a rich person".

[Ohioboy]

7. Well said and very true

A smart person knows how much they don't know.

[ProfessorGAC]

9. Personal Experience

Graduated with a 3.96 in chemistry at 19.
Knew a lot because it was a highly rigorous program.
Got my first full time position. In a week I realized that sheer experience had a dozen new coworkers knowing TONS of things, at their fingertips, I had yet to learn.
If I was oblivious, it wouldn't have dawned on me how much was still out there to learn.
That experience helped massively in grad school.
Well, except the 3rd advanced degree. MBA. Out of 16 classes, the lawyers were the only people who knew stuff I didn't already know. I have an MBA and I've concluded that is a racket. (The company told me to get the MBA. Probably would not have pursued it otherwise.)

[samnsara]

4. all trump* has to say is 'Its gonna end soon!' and of course it inevitably does and he says..

..see I told you I could fix it! I wonder what my trump*er sister who is a retired nurse has to say about all this? She ran away from Wash state to Wyoming about a year ago cuz she didn't like wash state 'restrictive gun laws/relaxed abortion rules' etc.

Wyoming is very last on the last for aggressive treating of the virus..wonder if shes even still alive?

ya kinda get what you pay for...

[bobbieinok]

6. Old grad school joke (60s)--BS-bull shit, MS-more shit, PhD-pilledhigher anddeeper

[George II]

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